PC Gamers Collected Almost $2 Million for Charity in November
Last year, digital retailer GOG.com ran a one-week promotion for charity, offering up a large bundle of games at a discount. As it turns out, a lot of people were interested.
Classic Fallout Games Pulled from Online Stores, Will Return Soon
It's—you guessed it—a legal issue.
Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout Tactics are free on GOG for the next 48 hours. Go get'em.
Pay Attention, Steam: You Can Now Return These Digital Games
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The convenience of digital downloads comes with a price: you might not have to deal with physical media, but you normally can't return the stuff you purchase on major distribution platforms like Steam either. But increasingly, other smaller services are willing to treat digital games a bit more like physical ones.
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Wing Commander is once again complete. With today's release of Wing Commander: Armada on GOG, each and every title from the classic space sim series has now been modernized for today's PCs. Well, except for Wing Commander Arena. But it's probably better that way.
A Time Travel Adventure For Smart Gamers
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I’m not sure who entrusted a mere child with time traveling goggles, but I’m glad somebody did because Lilly Looking Through is an enchanting experience about switching between time.
Online Store Offers Free Games To Furloughed Government Employees
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Today in Dumb Yet Hilarious Publicity Stunts, here's online gaming store Good Old Games honoring the U.S. government shutdown with a special sale.
It's raining expansion packs. GOG, still celebrating its fifth birthday, has made the expansion packs for five classic Bullfrog games available for free. So, owners of Syndicate, Dungeon Keeper, Magic Carpet, Populous, or Populous: The Beginning, know that another small part of your childhood has now been restored.
The Best Game Trailers Are Set To 80's Power Ballads
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After Saints Row 4, Stan Bush's "The Touch" makes yet another appearance in a video game context—this time, the Shadow Warrior reboot's launch trailer. And it is glorious.
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A deeply unsettling horror-adventure game makes a return. I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, the '95 point-and-click adventure based on the sci-fi short story of the same name, is once again available via GOG. It's one of Kotaku's must-play classic PC games, so you might wanna take a look—but prepare to be depressed.
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Shelter, the game where you're a badger mum protecting her cubs, is now out. You can grab it on Steam, GOG, or get it directly from the developers at their website. Above is the game's release trailer, titled "Fall Again," and should you be interested in how Shelter looks in action, you can watch us play the game here.
Be A Jerk Immigration Inspector In Papers, Please
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Have you ever dreamt of being an immigration inspector? Yeah, me too! Well now, thanks to Papers, Please we can enact on that collective dream we've all had for so long.
Watch Us Play Rise of the Triad, A Throwback To 1995
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The re-imagining of Rise of the Triad is here and unafraid to let you loose with nothing to guide you other than your intuition. Too bad my intuition is rubbish. I get myself lost on the way to the shops. But it's safe to say Rise of the Triad is as gore-filled and over the top as you'd expect from a game based on the…
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Interceptor Entertainment's HD re-imagining of the classic 1994 shooter Rise of the Triad is now available on GOG. The Steam version, which supports Steam Workshop for its user-made levels and mods, should follow later today.
Omikron: The Nomad Soul, 1999's futuristic and highly complex action-adventure title, is now on GOG.
GoG's Black Friday sale is on, with 20 indie games taking part in a pick-five-pay-$10 promotion. Pretty damn good value.
Ubisoft's huge GoG catalogue is 60% off this weekend. There's bound to be something in there for pretty much everyone.
GoG launches a pay-what-you-want Divinity series bundle with an advertised value of $32.
GoG's running a huge sale on retro Activision titles this weekend. I'd recommend picking up at least Arcanum.